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Eddie Lee: „watch is waterproof enough for a 50m dash in the rain...“ 😂

Hi everyone , hope you are all ok through these trouble times, stay safe. Ex buyer off RIVER from 2000s haha

Little dab of blue loctite should keep it in place😉

There's a fake plate glued on top of the regular screw. You will need to remove it to gain access to the regular screw.

Welcome back! Funny how this place works, it's like that TV show Cheers. It's always here, will always be here, and who knows who's hanging around the bar? Woody! Bring up another case of single malt! Dylan is back! Woody: "oh hi, Mister Dylan, want a beer?" Woody dammit I said single malt! And so it goes...................

6152/1 with prototype 2533 dial and Modded molnja movement. On a Gunny Paupe strap.

Sorry JSebWC ... I've been hacking up hairballs since DP had my Dobermans in the champagne fountain. That's not pleasant at all. I can finally say that this one is complete. Sorry for leaving this topic hanging! I had to make some tough decisions and each one was no going back. Do I use an A260 movement? Are parts available? Do I intend to USE this watch, or sit it on a shelf? I never wear my 6536 anymore because the autowind train is about shot, and there's no more parts out there. I want to wear this one instead for the Small Crown itch, so that meant an ETA movement. So we machined the case to make it fit. No going back. Do I want it to look pristine? Sharp chamfers and untouched dial? Well the case is not bright 904 stainless, it's another alloy and darker than most. So it looks well loved and well worn with engrained old grime. That means every other part needs to give the same aged impression. My 6536 has never flooded but the dial is OLD and chipped and gnarly looking. How that happens is probably UV ageing and tritium. I had my choice of the Tonny perfect glossy gilt dial, or the original ancient chipped dished dial. I went with the old chipped dial because it looks right in the case. Then the hands. They are nearly perfect in dimension, but way WAY too shiny and gold and perfect. So they took a lot of ageing. I wish we'd done a little more to ease over the edges of the hands so they look hand stamped instead of machine made. It's a subtle detail I'll have to address at some point. The bezel flat ROCKS, the rehaut is two pieces carefully put together by unknown hands decades ago, to give a neck for the crystal and a sloped inner edge for the dial. It's spectacularly well done, and almost impossible to see. The case is also slightly curved on the sides. Did those come from decades of polishing? Or should they be flatter? When I did my Snowflake I had the case polished to DEATH to make it all curved and sexy. There's no reason a 6204 can't have suffered the same treatment over its 65 year life. So old case, old chipped dial, old aged hands, old worn filthy bezel, what's left? The original insert is the vintage funky pointy-four piece with weird fonts, and looks EXACTLY like gen. It might be, for all I know. Someone sanded its outer perimeter to make it fit the bezel and took it slightly too far here and there. There's no going back from that. Maybe I can paint the sanded edge black to make it less noticeable? A little 3M goo holds it in place. The crystal feels like a tropic-18 very thin and delicate. It's no beastly thing like a T17 or T19. Do I like that? I have no frame of reference to decide. So it stays. In the end the case, engravings, bezel, insert, dial, hands, crystal and beat up Brevet+ crown all agree they are ancient and tired. That's exactly what I was going for. They're 95% correct, I just need to fine tune the finished piece to get everything perfect. But it came out far, far better than I'd hoped for. It will live on a leather strap because all the folded rivet bracelets are too bright and their steel doesn't match the case. That's fine with me, a gentleman 65 years ago would likely have worn this on leather anyway. And now to the pictures!

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Hello everybody. I'm still getting notifications and thus I'm visiting from time to time. But I must say my life has changed totally since I got sober (5 years ago) and broke (2 years ago) ! The brotherhood of RWG helped me a lot 2 years ago when I couldn't even imagine having a simple job back. You guys gave me a couple of watches and hundreds of euros that kept me alive till I found a job. I'm back on track, a radio presenter job during nights and weekends, still sober, publishing a blog about my alcoholism. I earn a very nice income, live in a nice flat and eat more than enough. I don't have the financial power to buy reps (and certainly not gens), but I'm more into spiritual living than I was before, so all is fine. Great to have news from you guys ! Keep safe, Stephane